New Scientist has a nice interview with Martha Wells about her Murderbot Diaries series, writing, neurodiversity, labor, gender, and robot & artificial intelligence stories from the beginning. “Martha Wells is the author of All Systems Red, the first novella in the Murderbot series. The book follows the adventures of a sentient machine intelligence that hacks the system supposed to be controlling it, then discovers that what it really enjoys doing is watching TV. She talks to Sophie Bushwick about how she came up with the idea for the series, how it was originally intended just to be a short story, and how writing about how Murderbot processes emotions led to a revelation of her own.”

Watch here.